Indian Railway

Indian Railways and Train enquiry details that you might ever need to know while on a rail travel or before a train journey. This extension is an empirical framework, which would offer you the convenience of having everything at one place. In fact, user’s convenience was one of the most priority holding aims behind developing this extension for train travellers. Simply put, this extension is all of that information from indian railways- in a matter of few clicks!
With Indian railways extension, you need not to worry about all these matters. You put your information once and you can start having notifications. All quick, all easy. The extension integrates some of the generally required featured such as ◘ Check Seat availability ◘ Train schedule ◘ Train running status ◘ Fare enquiry ◘ Train between stations ◘ PNR status
Getting your train details or getting answers to your train related queries can be quite a bothering and time consuming process when it comes checking them on the official website of Indian Railways. Regular Railway site users or train traveller would agree to this fact without a hitch or hesitation. More often than what one may ever think the server use to be down or overloaded, leaving the users hanging. Moreover, if you have to check train status etc. you might need to log in again and again each time you want to. Nothing can be more frustrating in an urgent hour, no?
Getting Desktop and Email notifications
We have our extension designed get your the information you need at your convenience. Getting desktop and email notifications are some of the key featured of this extension. You can have notifications of the information you need like PNR status updates and other updates. There is no complicated procedures or repeated log-ins involved in getting these notifications.
Desktop Alerts: As we stated earlier, using the extension is just a breeze. Well, there is nothing particular or additional that you need to do for getting desktop notifications. The notification framework just gets automated.
Email notifications: This as well, is nothing complex. You just need to feed in your email Id in our extension- just once. You shall start getting email notifications for the information requested or required.
Key Features of Indian Railways Browser Extension
We have incorporated the most relevant features that you might need any time while dealing with a train. All these features Here are the key features of Indian Railways extension
Live Train status: you often might need to check the actual location of train while waiting for a train to arrive. This is what exactly the Live train status of this browser extension do. With this, you can keep up with the actual or current location of the train. You need no other information that the train number to for checking the live train status. Simply by typing in the train number, you can fetch much of information like the destinations and corresponding arrival and departure times, the train’s position through GPS etc.
Train Schedule: Just as the name suggests, you can use this feature to have an insight into the arrival and departure times, as on the schedule, of the train you like to search. Here as well, you just need the train number and you can have all the related relevant information regarding the train such as the stations the train is supposed to cover, scheduled time etc.
Train between stations: Sometimes, you may want to know about the trains that operate between any two particular stations, to make a good choice. So here is it for you. Train between Stations is a feature which enables users to find out which all trains are operating between two destinations. Here again, you don’t need to type in any other information than just the names of source station and destination station that you are considering.
Cancelled trains: It is not really uncommon for trains getting cancelled due to many technical or other reasons. Find out all the details of the cancelled trains with the aid of ‘Cancelled trains’ feature. You can even select a particular date and see which all trains are cancelled for the day.
Live station: this is the feature that can be of you aid when you want to know which all trains will be arriving at a particular station. So wondering if there will be any train for you to board in 2 hours? Why not check on the live station feature? You can have the list of all the trains that will be going through the station you select- within the particular duration that you choose.
Train seat availability: Quite often, checking seat availability on IRCTC website can prove to be an unbearably long process. So, with this feature, you can check seat availability in any train- it will hardly be a matter of minutes! You just need to type in the train name/number and choose the travel quota and category. Here you go! You can see class-wise availability of seats in that particular train.
Fare Inquiry: You might want to check out the fare of the train beforehand. The fare enquiry feature helps you to find out the rates- just the same as enlisted in the Indian railways website. The rates are in sync with the Indian railway rates. Any minute changes in the site’s rates shall be reflected in the extension in no time. So you can be sure that there will be no inconsistency in the rates of IRCTC website rates and the Indian Railways browser extension rates.
Indian railways
Indian Railways is one among the top ten employers in the world. Of course, it has a considerable contribution to the livelihood of numerous people. Not only as an employer, but also as a strong also as a core of Indian travel and transport system. Railways, is one of most preferred and core transport modes in India. It would be, of course- for it is quite economic and convenient mode of transport with the network reaching roughly every corner of the country. For numerous people who work over distant places, railway transportation has become an indispensible and immensely significant part of their daily lives. Several thousands of people, including business and working people, travellers and labours use to travel every day through trains. Also, awareness about internet and the use of railways website is spreading. In such a scenario, often, the site gets queries in such numbers which would exceed its server limits- quite understandable a thing, right? Cracking through the site especially during the travel seasons would seem impossible for many.
So here we are, with the Indian Railways browser extension, to help you out with all your train or railways related queries. Travelling in Train in India? Be sure to have this extension installed on your browser beforehand!
History of Indian railways
The story of journey of Indian railways goes back to the years of British reign. The East India company, in early 1830s, had put forward the plan for railways for the very first time. In 1836, the very first experimental railway line of India was laid, in Madras. It was in 1845 that the GIPR or the Great Indian Peninsular railway was established. GIPR, in early 1850s, started the first passenger railway of the nation, which was in operation between Thane and Bombay. Around the same period, the Great Southern India Railway company got its beginning. Around 1860, track-construction in Madras started, opening an eighty mile line between Negapatam and Trichinopoly
The supervision of Robert Maitland Brereton post 1857 gave a quick boost to the expansion of Indian railways. He is credited for the linkage of Allahabad-Jabalpur routes with the GIPR. This route link had given way to direct Bombay-Calcutta travel. The route was made officially operating in March of 1870.
The ownership of the Great Indian Peninsular railway was acquired by government around 1900. The railway network further expanded post the acquisition. By the end of first decade of 20th century, most of the railway companies were acquired by the then Indian government. Around the same period was the electric-locomotives introduced. While world war and then the great recession had a strong hit on the railways, the decade post 1920 was favourable for Indian railways with the economic boom. Again then, the World war II was another blow on Indian Railways. A considerable proportion of coaches, locomotives etc. were moved out of the country for war purposes. Indian railways, in its whole, became a government owned entity by 1946.